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On 21st of April Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe announced the winners of its International University Contest in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Held for the second year, the contest provides students from tertiary education institutes with the opportunity to enhance their own daily educational life – by analysing and proposing improvements for document and information workflows at their institutes. This year’s winner is a team of four students from the University of Medical Sciences and Technology of Khartoum (UMST) from Sudan: They convinced the jury with their mobile app that optimises information flows with notifications and streamlines processes, optimising the use of time and resources.
The list of participants at this year’s contest was truly international: Student teams from the International Business School of Sofia (Bulgaria), the University of Groningen (Netherlands), the University of Cape Town (South Africa), the University of Valencia (Spain) and the UMST of Khartoum (Sudan) seized the opportunity to work with Konica Minolta to analyse current document or information workflows within their university and propose innovative solutions for improving those.
The jury further consisted of Alastair Creelman, e-learning specialist at Linnaeus University in Sweden and Armin Alt, Managing Director and co-founder of performIT.
At the award ceremony in Amsterdam, the winners were honoured for their success – and they won an invitation to the Web Summit in Lisbon in November, one of the world’s most important tech conferences.
At its International University Contest, Konica brings together academia with professionals from the IT business. Speakers at the event included Dr. Stephanie Keer, senior manager at Konica Minolta USA and part-time lecturer at the NYU in New York City, who provided an assessment of the impact of technology on education, and Andrea Cavallaro, who provided an insight into the way in which KMLE’s Innovation Partnership Network is engaging with Universities in such areas as robotics, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction, and semantic technologies.
For further information about the Konica Minolta International University Contest, please visit: http://iuc.konicaminolta.eu/
About Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH, based in Langenhagen, Germany, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo, Japan. Konica Minolta enables its clients to champion the digital era: with its unique imaging expertise and data processing capabilities, Konica Minolta creates relevant solutions for its customers and solves issues faced by society. As a provider of comprehensive IT services, Konica Minolta delivers consultancy and services to optimise business processes with workflow automation and implements solutions in the field of IT infrastructure and IT security as well as cloud environments. According to IDC, Konica Minolta is a “Major Player in Workflow Services Hardcopy in the Western European market” (2016). Being a strong partner for the production and industrial printing market, Konica Minolta offers business consulting, state-of-the-art technology and software and, in 2016, was the production printing market leader for the ninth consecutive year (InfoSource). The hardware portfolio covers light and mid production as well as industrial printing machines. Konica Minolta Marketing Services provides value added services that intelligently link print and digital marketing in an effective and efficient way. In the healthcare sector, Konica Minolta drives digitalisation of clinical workflows and offers a broad range of next-level diagnostic solutions. Through its Business Innovation Centre in London and four R&D laboratories in Europe, Konica Minolta brings innovation forward by collaborating with its customers as well as academic, industrial and entrepreneurial partners. Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe is represented by subsidiaries and distributors in more than 80 countries in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. With over 9,700 employees (as of March 2017), Konica Minolta Europe earned net sales of over EUR 2.4 billion in financial year 2016/17.
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